John Elway's contract extended by Broncos; team adds GM to his title

Summary of 9 articles · Updated Feb 12, 2014

John Elway has been building the Broncos up for years, and he’ll continue to with a new title. So he went to Elway's with Elway. The Denver Broncos extended the contract of John Elway, which was set to expire after the 2014 season, through 2017 and added … (more)general manager to his title of executive vice president. Denver won its first A.F.C. title in 15 years. Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen hired John Elway to return the team to prominence and now he and team president Joe Ellis have formally extended the executive vice president's contract and added general manager to his title to try and keep the team there. Elway's first order of business was hiring coach John Fox, who has led Denver to three straight AFC West titles and is expected to sign his own long-term extension soon. The Broncos have called it a three-year extension to that original contract, but some changes were made in the contract for the coming season, including a new title, so the new paperwork is essentially a four-year offering that now runs through the 2017 season. We will use this as an experience that we went through, be disappointed that we didn't play better, but the bottom line is this organization and what Pat Bowlen wants from this organization that has not changed and it will not change.

We all hear about quarterbacks' great leadership and knowledge of the game, but surprisingly few have successfully run a NFL team. At very least, nobody in the history of the game can match John Elway's combination of on-field success at quarterback and…